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Engels is talking about the Christian family, but only incidentally. When he says that in the "modern individual family" the woman is a domestic slave, he must have in mind Christian families, since the Europeans of his time were overwhelmingly Christian. However, he's interested in the modern individual family insofar as it is a species of the broader phenomenon he is discussing, monogamy under private property relations. As he discusses in the same section of the book, that arrangement describes Greek and Roman pagan marriages as well as later Christian ones. Since these predate and do not depend on Christian ideas, he's not attacking Christianity per se here -- far from it. As for "radical leftists at state universities" -- the vast majority of university professors are in monogamous relationships roughly of the kind Engels describes, with the important caveat that in our time there are far greater legal protections for wives (a fantastic improvement since Engels' writing). It's not at all clear that they "hate" this form of the family or "teach" this hatred regularly. In other words, as usual, either you don't know what you're talking about or you have disingenuously ripped a statement out of context in order to increase your own sense of victimhood.

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I don’t engage with anonymous trolls. If you’d like to be honest about who you are I’d be happy to discuss these points. You’re mistaken about the purpose of Engels and what it means to hate.

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Given how litigious and thin-skinned you are with your own institution and colleagues (the primary evidence for which is your very public statements on this blog, where you constantly whine about mundane matters to agents of the state), only a fool would risk having you file a frivolous lawsuit over a blog post. It is enough for me that your readers would double-check your "work" against the evidence of Engels' own text, where they would very quickly see that you don't know what you're talking about. I don't even agree with Engels, whose analysis has been shown to be wrong on several fronts (the improvement of women's lives within the marriage relationship has proceeded in the absence of the social revolution which he thought was a necessary condition for it). I just want your readers to know that you're not reading these texts honestly and accurately, the duty of any intellectual.

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Husband and wives belong to each other.

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